In the West.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 22, 1 May 1916, Page 6

In the West.

THE GALLANT 3HROPSHIRES. FIGHTING IN “NO MAN’S LAND." (Received 10.2 sa. ni.) - >#, Paris, April 30. The Shropshire’s feat cabled on the 22nd was carried out with great gallantry and endurance. There had been torrents of rain, and “No Man’s Land” ■ was honeycombed with rninp craters’ ‘and shell holes and its entire; churned-up area was a morass, the men occasionally t floundering PP their arm pits iti liquid * ninth They were (some hours crossing, two hundred yards;of the boglancls. By mostly progressing on all-fours, throwing the rifle in advance, crawling. pp, and then repeating’ the process’,"ilie enemy was taken by surprise. 1 The main trench Was almost deserted owing to the floods, and a sharp hand-to»hand fight in one or two traverses enabled tb<’ Shropshires to secure a consolidated position. Two counter-attacks yyeie easily repulsed. FRENCH AIRMAN’S HEROISM EVEN UNTIL DEATH. (Received 10.22 a.m.) Paris, April 30. In an air fight at Mulhausen, a Frenchman’s tank was pierced, and finding that the machine was ablaze and that escape was hopeless, he precipitated the biplane against the Govman one, and both perished, the bodies being carbonised. . y